Ratnamati
Ratnamati (C. Le na mo ti 勒那摩提) (5th Century - 6th Century) was an Indian scholar and translator who lived during the fifth and sixth centuries CE.
In 508 CE, Ratnamati traveled from India to Luoyang, the capital of Northern Wei dynasty in China. In Luoyang, he worked on a translation of Vasubandhu's "Treatise on the Ten Stages" (S. Daṡabhūmivyākhyāna; C. Shidijing lun) with Bodhiruci and Buddhaśānta.[1] However, disagreements arose among the collaborators over the nature of the ālayavijñāna (viz., whether it was pure, impure, or both), which eventually led them to produce different translations.[1]
The two translations resulted in two branches of the Di lun zong (Daśabhūmikā school), which was based on Vasubandhu's commentary (the Shidijing lun).
- Those who studied Bodhiruci's rendering came to be known as the Northern Di lun zong, while the followers of Ratnamati's version were known as the Southern Di lun zong. The Southern Di lun school was represented by Ratnamati's foremost pupil, Huiguang (468–537), who advocated that the ālayavijñāna was an ultimate truth (paramārthasatya) and coextensive with the buddha-nature (foxing), which thus was in fact innate.
- Ratnamati subsequently went on to collaborate with other scholars on the translation of other works, including the Ratnagotravibhāga, and the Saddharmapuṇdarīkopadeśa attributed to Vasubandhu.[1]
Ratnamati (T. rin chen blo gros རིན་ཆེན་བློ་གྲོས་) is also the name of a bodhisattva who appears in various Mahāyāna sūtras.[1] In at least one account, he is identified as one of the bodhisattvas in the entourage of the Buddha Śākyamuni when he taught the girl Vimalaśraddhā.[2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Ratnamati
- ↑
rin chen blo gros, Christian-Steinert Dictionary